On 10/16/06, Avatar <acampbellb / hotmail.com> wrote: > I would like to hear people's opinions on the ability to use variables > without declaring them in dynamic languages like Ruby. You mean without declaring their *type*, right? It's more accurate to say simply that variables have no type in Ruby; Rather the variable's contents have a type. In any case, Ruby requires that variables be declared before use just as any decent language worth the name does. Martin